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This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 4493, "subject": "Typo in _Starwater Strains_?", "messages": 3, "voices": 3, "first": "2005-08-24T21:34:41+00:00", "last": "2005-08-24T23:12:22+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Dan Rabin", "address": "wolfe-lists at danrabin.com" }, "date": "2005-08-24T21:34:41+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Typo in _Starwater Strains_?", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "On p. 217 of _Starwater Strains_ (U.S. hardbound), in \"The Boy Who \nHooked the Sun\", the phrase \"pelted him with the shining stones of \nAtlantis\" is a recurring motif, except at what would be its third \noccurrence, where it is printed as \"pelted him with the shining \nstories of Atlantis\".\n\nGiven the similar appearance of \"stories\" and \"stones\", I think this \nis likely to be a mis-transcription somewhere along the line, not \nsome encoding of \"the story that is a stone\" or \"the story among the \nstones\" or \"third 'stone' from the Sun\" or anything.\n\nIf anyone reading this has access to the Cheap Street chapbook, could \nyou tell us how the word appears in that edition?\n\n -- Dan Rabin" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "mournings glory", "address": "mourningsglory at hotmail.com" }, "date": "2005-08-24T22:43:54+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Typo in _Starwater Strains_?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On p. 217 of _Starwater Strains_ (U.S. hardbound), in \"The Boy Who Hooked \nthe Sun\", the phrase \"pelted him with the shining stones of Atlantis\" is a \nrecurring motif, except at what would be its third occurrence, where it is \nprinted as \"pelted him with the shining stories of Atlantis\"." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "If anyone reading this has access to the Cheap Street chapbook, could you \ntell us how the word appears in that edition?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "\"But the boy only laughed at her and pelted her with the shining stones of \nAtlantis, with agates and alexandrites, moonstones and onyxes, rubies, \nsardonyxes, and sapphires...\"\n\nIs this the third instance? If so it reads as written, with \"stones, not \n\"stories.\"" } ] }, { "message_id": "<20050825015134.W60216-100000@heimdallr.dyndns.org>", "from": { "name": "Mark Millman", "address": "millman at heimdallr.dyndns.org" }, "date": "2005-08-24T23:12:22+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Typo in _Starwater Strains_?", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Dear list members,\n\nMr. Rabin is correct. The word in _Starwater Strains_\n(on page 217, paragraph 5, line 1) is misprinted as\n\"stories\". The Cheap Street chapbook (it's the press'\nsolstice greeting for 1985) has \"stones\" in that sen-\ntence (page 7, paragraph 2, line 2). The opposition\nthat Wolfe employs is between \"shining stones of At-\nlantis\" for most of the story, and \"shining stones of\nUranus\" in the final instance. He does not appear ex-\nplicitly to contrast \"stones\" with \"stories\".\n\nI'm afraid that mournings glory refers to the fourth\ninstance, in which the boy chases away the magic woman\nfrom the hills, the sorceress. It occurs in paragraph\n7 on page 217. The instance to which Mr. Rabin refers\nis the third, in which the boy drives away the clever-\nest man in the village, its mayor.\n\nNice catch, Mr. Rabin.\n\nBest,\n\nMark Millman" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Dan Rabin wrote:\nOn p. 217 of _Starwater Strains_\n(U.S. hardbound), in \"The Boy Who\nHooked the Sun\", the phrase \"pelt-\ned him with the shining stones of\nAtlantis\" is a recurring motif,\nexcept at what would be its third\noccurrence, where it is printed\nas \"pelted him with the shining\nstories of Atlantis\".\n\nGiven the similar appearance of\n\"stories\" and \"stones\", I think\nthis is likely to be a mis-tran-\nscription somewhere along the\nline, not some encoding of \"the\nstory that is a stone\" or \"the\nstory among the stones\" or \"third\n'stone' from the Sun\" or anything.\n\nIf anyone reading this has access\nto the Cheap Street chapbook,\ncould you tell us how the word\nappears in that edition?\n\n -- Dan Rabin" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "And on Thu, 25 Aug 2005, mournings\nglory replied:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "\"But the boy only laughed at her\nand pelted her with the shining\nstones of Atlantis, with agates\nand alexandrites, moonstones and\nonyxes, rubies, sardonyxes, and\nsapphires...\"\n\nIs this the third instance? If\nso it reads as written, with\n\"stones, not \"stories.\"" } ] } ] }